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...joint commitment was the major achievement of Vice President Walter Mondale's four-day tour of the Middle East. As Mondale left Alexandria for Washington last week, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat handed him a new six-point peace plan to pass on to Israel. The plan is Egypt's response to a 26-point proposal presented by Israeli Premier Menachem Begin at the Ismailia conference last December. Washington sources optimistically contended that the two plans, although predictably far apart on every major issue, would serve as "a fair basis for negotiations...
...House hoped their presence might persuade the Israelis that the Administration's Middle East policies enjoy the backing of the American Jewish community. (Other U.S. Jewish leaders, however, refused to join the Mondale entourage.) From Israel, the Vice President planned to stop briefly in Egypt to see President Anwar Sadat...
...again. When he visits Jerusalem this week for Israel's 30th anniversary celebrations, Vice President Walter Mondale will talk with Israeli leaders about how to get the stalled peace negotiations moving once more. After that, he plans to fly on to Alexandria for a meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
Perhaps the biggest loser in last week's Israeli Cabinet decision was Anwar Sadat. Jerusalem's decision will increase the pressure he has been getting from several quarters to renounce his peace initiative in the interest of restoring Arab unity. Among the friends who are pressing him to change course is Jordan's King Hussein, who has urged him to acknowledge publicly that his peace effort has failed. Sadat has refused. Among his foes is his own ambassador to Lisbon, former General Saadeddin Shazli, who was fired from his post last week after savagely denouncing Sadat. Shazli...
...Begin plan has been rejected by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and other Arabs. It is overwhelmingly denounced by the West Bank Palestinians on the ground that it would merely continue an occupation they find hateful and humiliating. Home rule, they argue, in no way satisfies their need for a national identity. They dismiss the security argument as fraudulent. Soldier for soldier, weapon for weapon, Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East despite its small size; the West Bank, which almost certainly would be demilitarized in a peace settlement giving it autonomy, has no airport, no arms factories...